Author: Potomac Local News
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Lake Ridge, Va. –– Police say a 21-year-old woman awoke to find she was being raped.
Rappahannock Regional Jail Superintendent Joe Higgs identified the inmate as 42-year-old Brenda Lee Cochran.
After being processed at the jail Monday, Cochran began suffering nose bleeds and was admitted to the jail’s medical ward for observation.
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Lorton, Va. ––The waters of the Potomac River have been running more rapidly and brown the past few weeks.
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The Virginia Department of Transportation is reviewing plans to place welcome signs at key entrances to the county –– on Kings Highway (Va. 3), Warrenton Road (U.S. 17), and both north and south entrances to Jefferson Davis Highway (U.S. 1).
The red and blue signs will state “Stafford County: George Washington’s Boyhood Home,” and would depict a colonial-era child –– to evoke thoughts of George Washington as a child –– playing a game.
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VRE CEO Dale Zehner will be available to answer questions about your commute.
Click this link to participate in the online forum. Once there, click the “ask” button to submit your question and then wait for it to be answered, according to VRE.
The plan identifies for the next 10 years the political boundaries that will be used to elect the county Board of Supervisors and School Board, as well as defines voting precincts for every election.
Three new precincts (one in the George Washington District, one in the Griffis-Widewater District and the other in the Aquia District) were created, and five polling places were moved to new locations.
Police say both men involved in the crash were not wearing their seatbelts.
A man driving a 2005 Pontiac GT at 6:08 a.m. westbound in the 13200 block of Aden Road in Nokesville was actually traveling in the wrong lane, and after the vehicle went over a hill it struck a 1993 Geo Tracker head on, said Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok.